Description
Circa 440 – 400 BC. AR (plated?) didrachm 6.46 gr., 18.9 mm.
Obv.: head of Athena to the right, wearing Attic helmet decorated with hippocamp.
Rev.: ΘΟΥΡΙΩΝ; bull walking to the left on ground line; [in exergue: fish (Chelon Labrosus) to the left.
Ref.: HNI – ; SNG ANS 940 (same dies); SNG Oxford 1006. For the dies cf. CNG 500 (Lancaster PA, 2021), lot 21; for a plated coin from this era: cf. Künker 397 (Osnabrück 2023), lot 2078.
Very rare. Good Very Fine.
A rare, early emission with a hippocamp on the helmet of Athena.
